The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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